Mother Hen™ is a cloud-connected coop monitoring system that watches the automatic chicken door you already own, every opening that matters — doors, windows, nest box lids, hatches, run gates — and coop temperature — and makes sure you know the moment something goes wrong.
| Feature | Generic Auto-Door | Mother Hen™ |
|---|---|---|
| Works with the door you already own | — (is the door) | ✓ Monitor-only; attaches to your existing auto door |
| Monitors every opening that matters | ✗ Chicken door only | ✓ Add Coop Climate Sensors and Door Monitors as needed |
| Coop temperature + humidity monitoring | ✗ | ✓ Built into every Coop Climate Sensor |
| Triple-redundant alerts | ✗ 1 method (app) | ✓ Local indicator + Egg + SMS |
| Cellular built-in | ✗ Wi-Fi or nothing | ✓ Cellular-only at launch — no home Wi-Fi at the coop |
| AWS cloud brain | ✗ Local logic | ✓ Sunrise math, alerts, history — all in AWS |
| Transparent service pricing | — | ✓ $399 kit with first year included, then $99/year |
| Extreme climate rated | ✗ Varies | ✓ -20°C to +45°C at the coop |
Mother Hen™ is a monitor-only coop system that watches the automatic chicken door you already own, every opening that matters — doors, windows, nest box lids, hatches, run gates — and coop temperature — and delivers alerts over three independent paths so failures aren’t silent.
Mother Hen exists because someone we know lost their flock to a failed coop door. The full story is in About.
Three alert paths. A coop-side indicator on the Controller (offline backup), an indoor Egg beacon (cloud-pushed), and SMS to your phone (also cloud-pushed). The coop indicator catches events the Controller can see on its own; the Egg and SMS share the cellular uplink. Optional daily SMS confirmations let you spot a quiet system before silence becomes a missing alert.
Unique Architecture: Amazon Web Services (AWS) does the thinking (sunrise math, alert logic, data trends). Hardware just listens and shouts. Smart where it matters. Simple where it counts.
That’s what makes Mother Hen™ different.
Prototype active in Tennessee and Colorado. Join the waitlist →
